I must say I thought this thread had died. I took all those plants out and now have a healthy banana plant and a coconut shell with moss on it that's growing like CRAZY! Interestingly enough I put the blade looking plants in a small vase with water and after almost a month they are still alive.

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-Lord Byron